-- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by Chapman Coleman, Mohammed Ali and his House (1871, 1893, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #99]

-- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and her Daughters, Frederick the Great and His Family (1867, 1893, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #98]

It was a fine, warm day in May, 1812. The world was groaning under the yoke of Napoleon’s tyranny. -- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by F. Jordan, Napoleon and Blücher (1867, 1898, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #97]

-- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by Chapman Coleman, Queen Hortense (1870, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #96]

-- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by Rev. W. Binet, A.M., The Empress Josephine (1867, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #95]

“Is that your last word, madame?” said Louvois, in a tone so emphatic as to be almost threatening. -- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by Adelaide DeV. Chaudron, Prince Eugene and His Times (1868, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #94]

-- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and her Daughters, Berlin and Sans-Souci, or Frederick the Great and His Friends (1867, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #93]

happiness of being selected as the king’s sixth consort. -- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by Rev. H N Pierce, D.D., Henry the Eighth and His Court (1864, 1867, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #92]

Profound silence reigned in the valleys and gorges of Jena and Auerstadt. The battles were over. -- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by F. Jordan, Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia (1867, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #90]

-- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by Mrs. Chapman Coleman and her Daughters, Frederick the Great and His Court (1896, 1907) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #89]

“No, Natalie, weep no more! Quick, dry your tears. Let not my executioner see that we can feel pain or weep for sorrow!” -- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by Nathaniel Greene, The Daughter of an Empress (1867, 1908) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #88]

The population of Vienna was paralyzed with terror; a heavy gloom weighed down all minds, and the strength of the stoutest hearts seemed broken. -- Clara Mundt (Luisa Mühlbach) transl. by F. Jordan, Louisa of Prussia and Her Times (1867, 1908) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #87]

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its power, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. --Daniel Webster

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which have cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach. --Washington

The true grandeur of nations is in those qualities which constitute the true greatness of the individual. --Sumner Labor to keep alive i your heart that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. --Washington

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. --O'Connell Eternal good citizenship is the price of good government. --Root Votes should be weighed, not counted. --Schiller

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good and difficult for them to do evil. --Gladstone No government is respectable which is not just. --Webster

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. -- Jefferson True liberty consists in the privilege of enjoying our own rights, not in the destruction of the rights of others. --Pinckard

Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not conflict, and that our rea eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war. --McKinley

Equal and exace justice to all men, of whatever state of persuasion, religious or political; peace commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliance with none. --Jefferson.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. --Garfield Education is our only political safety. --H. Mann

The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves. Cowley. Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Everett. --Placard above the stairway to the entrance of the Senate in the Minnesota State Capitol.

This Dictionary was begun, with the view of supplying, at a price within the reach of all, a public want, which the editor had found to exist, for a small word-book which should comprise all the primitive, and most of the derivative words

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of Holy Writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. --William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, scene v.

I was in combat for six weeks, forty-two days. --Studs Terkel, “The Good War” (1984)

When Hitler, having secured his eastern frontier by the lightning elimination of Poland, turned west to pursue his ambition to dominate Europe, one principal factor stood between

German weather forecasters predicted all western Europe would be enshrouded by the fog that screened Adolph Hitler’s last mad lunge westwards out of Nazi Germany. -- Fred MacKenzie, The Men of Bastogne (1968)

On the night of August 23, 1939, I attended a particularly gay party. --Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State (1944)

In my childhood in Holland—I may have been fifteen or sixteen years of age—I remember one evening accompanying my parents to church when prayers were offered there for the return of the People of Israel to the Holy Land. --Pierre Van Paassen, The Forgotten Ally (1943)

On August 2nd, 1274, Edward of Westminster the crusader landed at Dover. --Arthur Bryant, The Age of Chivalry (1963)